On Wednesday, November 13, the California Department of Insurance announced the success of what it called “Operation Bear Claw,” an investigation into whether what looked like a bear damaging the inside of a Rolls Royce was, in fact, a person in a bear costume committing insurance fraud. The investigation concluded it was, and as a result four L.A. residents have been arrested and charged with fraud and conspiracy.
if you look closely at the video you’ll see it’s actually a compilation of three sets of footage, from slightly different angles and showing three different vehicles being molested by what appears to be the same bear. Because here’s the thing: once you’ve had a great idea like this and have already gone to the trouble of getting yourself a bear costume, you wouldn’t stop at just one vehicle. Upon investigation, the agency found two other insurance claims had been filed with two other insurance companies seeking bear-inflicted damages for two other vehicles: a 2022 Mercedes E350 and a 2015 Mercedes G63. And, remarkably, those losses allegedly happened on the same date and at the same location as the Rolls-Royce incident.
Filing insurance claims for bear damage of three different cars, at the same location, on the same night, and each with surveillance camera footage from the same camera showing all three cars being damaged while parked in the same spot.
That (plus the biologist) was enough to get a search warrant, and if you assumed these suspects would have disposed of the bear costume after using it to commit three crimes rather than keeping it at home, you must be new here:
I can’t figure out why or how the perps expected to profit from this fraud. Was the insurance payout worth more than what they’d get if they just sold all 3 of those luxury cars? And whenever they did eventually sell or trade them in, wouldn’t they be worth a lot less because of those scratches?
the choice made at a high school baseball field in Connecticut, turning the field into a toxic mess that will cost an estimated $50,000 to clean up. The town posted the news on its Facebook page, generously taking responsibility for the incident: “A poor decision was made … to ‘dry the field quicker’ and 24 gallons of gasoline was poured and set on fire.”
Yep, pretty much… Not to mention just flat out dumb. Like, they could ask what brings these people together under the MAGA ideology and dig into that. Instead they just assume that they are all as they’ve presented themselves previously, and thus must be “liberal”…
